In the area around the Forty-mile Long Mountain, adults will scare children in order to let them go to bed early and not be greedy for play. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"If you don't sleep again, be careful that the cat will catch you!"

Often when children hear "cat set", they are immediately frightened and sleep quietly.

According to legend, Mao Jizi was a fierce general in ancient times, who died because of grievances and hatred.

Before he died, a cat had been wandering around him, and it was said that cats could see spirits, and if a cat wandered around a seriously injured and dying person, that person would die.

Seeing that the cat had been surrounding him, his heart was already angry and full of resentment, so he glared at it fiercely and carried out a mental impact on him.

But he was already on the verge of death, his soul was wandering, and he forcibly gathered his spirit and launched an attack, but he died on the spot, and he didn't see it.

And his mental impact was also accompanied by a part of his remnant soul, rushing into the cat's soul, and finally absorbing a large amount of anger in the place where the fierce general died tragically, mutating, and becoming a terrible "cat set".

After that, the naughty children in the nearby villages and towns often disappeared inexplicably at night, sometimes leaving a large amount of blood, so it was reported that the cats haunted at night and ate the children who cried at night.

But it's all about adults scaring children, and no adult thinks it's true. At most, it's just a cat monster that has been misrepresented by the world.

However, on the "Shunshan Town", fifty miles west of Shigu Village......

"I'm not sleepy, I don't sleep, I don't sleep!" cried a little boy at the door.

His mother was grabbing his hand and dragging him home.

"Let's go! Look at what time it's been here!Don't sleep yet!Beware of the cats catching you and eating you!" the middle-aged woman cried out impatiently, reprimanding him as she dragged him home.

"Let's play again!woo~" The little boy screamed and cried, and he kept jumping and struggling, trying to break free of his mother's hand.

"The dam will be built soon!I'll sleep right away after it's built!Woo~" His tears kept flowing, his snot was crying, and he squatted down to prevent his mother from continuing to pull him away.

The boy's home was on the edge of the town, near the wilderness, and there were no people around, but in front of his house was a slope on which water flowed down to form a very slender "stream".

Although the weather is very cold now, the water comes from an intermittent hot spring, and the temperature is around 20 degrees Celsius, so in winter, he can still play in the water with confidence.

He was playing a child's classic game, "Dam Blocker". It is to block those "small streams" with mud, build dams one by one, and continue to block them as the water accumulates more and more, flowing out from both sides of the dam.

This game seems to have been created during the period of Emperor Yao in ancient times, when Kun controlled the water for nine years, and where the flood was blocked.

This method is not effective in real water control, and the flood is still rampant, and people are afraid.

But when it becomes a game, it is very popular with children. If you direct the drainage, it will be no fun.

Children find it interesting, but adults may not, and at this time, the little boy's mother is impatient, and she is angry when she sees a small "dam" a few steps away.

She took three steps and made two steps, went up and stepped on and kicked, destroying all the palm-sized dams.

Her feet were on the "earthen dam", and she also stepped on the young heart of the little boy.

"Ah!!h

The boy's face turned pale, his eyes were blank, and tears flowed down his cheeks. A child's mind is always extremely fragile, and a casual act can destroy it.

"Go, go back!" the mother yelled at the boy, tugging at his arm to drag him back.

"No, I'm not leaving!Mother is a villain! Mother is a villain!Ah~" The boy struggled like crazy, shook off his mother's hand, and sat on the ground crying.

The mother couldn't stand it anymore and roared angrily: "Okay! I'm a villain! You stay outside at night, don't come back!"

After saying that, he went back to the house angrily, slammed the door shut, and inserted the latch.

"Woo~" Seeing the closed door, the boy cried again.

After crying for a quarter of an hour, the tears were almost gone, and he rested for a while.

The cold wind of the winter night is extremely biting, the Shunshan Mountain under the night is depressed and quiet, the houses in the market town not far away are like graves, full of weirdness and gloomy, and the wasteland overgrown with wild grass on the other side is like the road of Yellow Springs, as silent as death.

A breeze swept through the boy's thin body, and he couldn't help but shiver, as if a cold current had penetrated into his soul just now, although he was wearing a thick cotton coat, he couldn't help but tremble.

The boy curled up on the ground, his eyes closed, struggling to resist the cold, but this coldness came from his soul, how could he, an ordinary teenager, resist.

Suddenly, a cloud of absolutely dark mist enveloped the boy and swallowed it up.

The boy suddenly felt a chill, and he opened his eyes slightly to see what was happening, but his consciousness was already a little blurry, and only a slit was opened.

In a trance, he seemed to see a blood-red eye and an ethereal ...... Cat!

On this night, a total of nine people were missing in Shunshan Town......

……

There is another legend in the "Four Evils" basin: the water monkey.

It is a mysterious creature that haunts lakes and mountain ponds. There are many rumors about this creature, and the strange folklore book "Qi Harmonic" in the "Four Evils" basin combines the common, similar, and common statements of different rumors, plus certain inferences, to arrive at the most convincing explanation:

"The water monkey, also known as the water ghost, is more than four feet tall, with membranous skin, almost transparent, resembling a monkey, dark green claws, dark eyes, and no whites of the eyes. ”

"This animal water, like to eat flesh and blood, often haunts mountain ponds and lakes. In the water is extremely strong and swift, but when you go ashore, you are weak and weak, and if you are seriously ill. ”

"When summer and autumn are hot and dry, water monkeys are infested. In the bitter cold of spring and winter, it hides deep in the silt at the bottom of the river and hibernates. ”

Finally, in order to get close to some of the rumors, "Qi Harmony" also added a remark:

"Folk grotesque: this beast is the resentment of a drowned person, has not entered the cycle of reincarnation, wandering between the two worlds, if you drag others into the water and drown, so that they can fall into reincarnation. ”

In fact, although there are rumors of water monkeys every year, there are only about a dozen times in total, and they are all in relatively remote mountain villages, so the reputation of water monkeys is limited to rural areas.

Changshan Lake.

Located on the edge of the "Four Evils" basin, Changshan Lake has a total of 18 catchment rivers. One of them comes from the Huai Shui in the "Four Evils", which is not large and not outstanding.

There is a river in the southwest of Changshan Lake, which used to flood frequently, forming a large river valley, like the Dustpan Bay Valley.

It's just that 58 years ago, the royal family sent the last group of builders to secretly go here, and spent five years adding a hundred-zhang long "dam" to Changshan Lake along the mountain.

Only a small gap is left for Changshan Lake, so the wide river valley is revealed.

Therefore, the current river valley still maintains its original appearance, and the accumulation of external forces is not obvious.

The average width of the valley is 70 zhang, and the two sides are almost 90 degrees vertical, and the bottom of the valley is about one zhang lower than the surrounding areas.

Walking four or five miles downstream from the "dam", the river, which was originally seven or eight zhang wide, suddenly shrunk to one or two zhang, but the water depth has increased, and in some places it is even more than one zhang deep.

Except for the current river channel, which is more than a foot wide, the other lowlands are covered with two or three inches of green grass, and they are evergreen all year round.

There are also thirty or forty families living in this area, which they call the "bottom of the river".

At noon that day, the sun was shining blindly, and although the temperature was still in the single digits, the sun was so strong that the snow on the ground was still melting rapidly.

Due to the replenishment of a large amount of snowmelt water, the water volume of Changshan Lake has also increased significantly, and the water level of the "river bay bottom" has also increased slightly.

Four middle-aged men living in Tuncang came to the bottom of the river bay with fishing tools, intending to catch more fish while the water was rising.

There is a one-zhang long area covered with pebbles at the bottom of the river, which was laid by the inhabitants of the "bottom of the river" to cross the valley to the opposite rice paddies to cultivate.

The river here is nearly three feet long, and the current is particularly turbulent, and four men are pulling nets and setting up ambushes here.

However, no one noticed that ten feet downstream of them, two water monkeys were quietly approaching......

……

Night.

"Patriarch, no, no!" a servant rushed to Ziyun's room in a panic to report.

Ziyun couldn't help frowning, and said, "What's the matter?" ”

"Four men from the cantonment are missing! Their families are just outside the gate, and they are in a desperate hurry. ”

Ziyun's brows furrowed even deeper, he hurriedly went out to ask for the details, and by the way, reassured them not to worry, and summoned more than thirty middle-aged Qi Refining Realm martial artists to go out to look for them.

One of those four people was a martial artist of the Eightfold Realm of Refining Body, and the other three were all Sixfold Realm of Refining Body, Ziyun faintly felt that something was unusual, so he only asked those of the Refining Realm to find it.

This is Zishang has just returned from the winter training of Banjuwa, and there is still the last week, and the abusive winter training is about to end.

As soon as he arrived at the house, he saw his father leaving Shangying with more than 30 people. Although he was tired, he felt as if something big had happened, and he quietly followed him despite his exhaustion.

They galloped all the way, and soon came to the "bottom of the river", where they saw fishing nets and other tools for fishing, as well as some unkempt pebbles.

After scouting at the scene for a while, Yuanhua, who got the news, also came, and he used his spiritual power to scan the surroundings, only to find a finger and a piece of cloth torn from his clothes under a pile of pebbles.

Then, with a calm face, they talked solemnly for a while, and then scattered downstream to look for it.

Zishang came out from behind a bush. He had vaguely heard some words just now, and with some traces of the scene, he guessed that someone might be missing!

"Could it be that there are monsters that have taken them captive?"

Zishang secretly guessed in his heart.

He saw that everyone else had gone downstream, so he suddenly had an idea and decided to look upstream.

He explored all the way upstream from the "bottom of the river bay", crossing the river from time to time and searching both banks.

After walking two or three miles, there was a turn in the river valley, and he once crossed the river, and just after walking far, a water monkey poked out half of its head......

……

Jianshan Mountain on the north shore of Changshan Lake.

A dark shadow swept across the lake under the cover of night......